Stuart will hold separate meetings with the President of the Republic, Nicos Anastasiades, and the Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, on Monday, ahead of his trip to New York where the UN Security Council process to adopt a resolution to renew the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) will take place at the end of July.
The Anastasiades-Stuart meeting at the Presidential Palace will take place on Monday morning, while in the afternoon of the same day Mr. Stuart will meet with Mr Tatar at his office in the occupied territories, according to the Cyprus News Agency.
The meetings will take place in the shadow of the letter of reply, dated June 20, 2022, which Mr Anastasiadesis Asturias and Mr Tatar will send to Mr Tatar at his office in the occupied territories. Tatar, sent to President Anastasiades, in which he calls for "sovereign equality" and "equal international status" for Turkish Cypriots in order to "open the door for substantive and formal negotiations aimed at establishing a structured cooperative relationship between two equal states".
Asked to comment on Mr Tatar's letter, Government Spokesman, Marios Pelecanos, has told CNA that "once again the unacceptable claim of the other side for recognition of equal sovereign rights to the illegal regime is repeated", which serves their goal of leading to a two-state solution "which under no circumstances will we accept.
Pelecanos also said that Nicosia would await the proposals that, as Mr. Tatar intends to submit, making it clear that for there to be a basis for discussing them, they should be in line with the UN Security Council resolutions on Cyprus, international law and what the EU's principles and values impose on us.
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